Uzbekistan and Russia intend to increase cargo transportation between China, Russia and Central Asia

    Transport 30 January 2022 2595

    Russian Railways Logistics and Uzbek logistics company UTI Transit have established a joint venture – “RZDL Transservice Group”. Its main goal is to increase rail freight traffic between Russia, China and the countries of Central Asia.

    The company will be located on the territory of Uzbekistan. Its task will be to attract customers to the routes: "Moscow - Tashkent - Moscow", transit from China to Uzbekistan via Kazakhstan, "Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan - Kazakhstan" and "Moscow - Tashkent - Dushanbe". In addition, the company will participate in the development of new transport corridors from China to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

    Within the framework of the joint venture, Russian Railways Logistics will provide cargo collection and reception at the terminals of the Moscow region, fare payment and service on the way through the territories of Russia and Kazakhstan, and will also provide fitting platforms and autonomous refrigerated containers. In turn, UTI Transit will provide similar services on the territory of Uzbekistan. The subsequent expansion of routes and services will be carried out by agreement of the parties.

    At the first stage of its activity, the joint Russian-Uzbek enterprise will provide freight forwarding services for cargo transportation on the Moscow- Tashkent - Moscow route with a regularity of two round trips per month with a volume of 40 forty-foot autonomous refrigerated containers in each train, as well as organize export-import transportation between the regions of Russia and Uzbekistan of agro-industrial goods by motor transport.

    Thus, in 2022, it is planned to increase the volume of transportation to five Euro truck per week from Russia to Uzbekistan and to five Euro truck per week in the opposite direction, “EastFruit” reports, citing data from Russian Railways Logistics.

    In the future, the joint venture plans to increase the cargo base both through agricultural products and other types of cargo in transportation between the Russian Federation, China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries by rail and road.